The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-06
GEORGIA'S CAPITAL CITY.
Supreme Court Decisions-Facts From
the Tax Books.


ATLANTA, GA, July 5.-The Supreme
Court Judges, Blecklcy and Blanford sit
ting, handed down the following decisions
and adjourned to the October term:
w W Kicks VS.. E. N. Broyles ct al. ;
from Fulton. Reversed.
r. +. Fouche, assignee, ct al VS.. William
II, Harrison, executor, eft al, and vice versa ;
from Richmond Reversed in the first and
affirmed in the second.
Georgia A. Brown ct al vs. w E.
Mathews ct al. from Houston. Affirmed.
No reference was made to the condition
of Justice Hall, but he is said to be steadily
improving.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad returned to the Comptroller General
today the following taxable valuation:
Brunswick Division, $2,019, 100; Atlanta, 81
| 49, 500; Alabama, ssh, 800; an increase of
1925, POP over last year.
HALF A MILLION INVOLVED.
The returns were filed some time ago, but
| the Comptroller suggested certain correc-
| tions which increase the taxable total $780,
| 0)0.
Since 1880 the business of fire insurance in
| Georgia has increased even more rapidly
| than the life insurance already reported
| Their premiums in 1880 were 1888, rs, and
losses 1904, 522. For the year ending May
| the premiums in round numbers were
81 SOC, 900, or nearly $114,000,O0O in risks,
with losses of 1921, 125.
A lively prohibition complication has
arisen on the line of DeKalb and Gwinnett
counties DeKalb is dry and Gwinnett
wet I, G. Wallace, of Gwinnett, owns
land lying in both counties. Recently he
set up distillery on the Gwinnett side.
ON THE WET SIDE.
After a careful investigation as to the
line the Dekalb authorities claim that he is
over the line and subject to indictment, and
brought the matter before the grand jury.
They had the surveyors of both counties 10
cate the line, and Wallace was sustained.
The report was accepted by the grand jury,
but the Dekalb Commissioners are still ON
the warpath, and say they will run Wallace
out
The Adjutant General has received q sec
ond report from Mr.. Monroe, who is getting
up the muster roll of Georgia troops in
Washington. The report gives the muster
roll, field and staff, of the First Confederate
Regiment of Georgia, Col George A. Smith,
of Macon: the First Regiment of Georgia
Regulars, Col. Charles j. Williams, and the
Sixty sixth Georgia, Col. James Cooper
Nesbit, afterwards consolidated with the
| First Confederate Georgia. The report also
| gives a roll of the general officers in the
army from Georgia.
OPPOSITION TO A PARDON.
A Jasper county citizen writes the Cover,
nor that he has had son-in-law in the peni-
| tertiary for eight years for assault with
intent to murder his wife. He says the
convict and his relatives boast that when
the Legislature meets he will be pardoned
and so home and be revenged. He describes
him as a desperate man of gambling and
| drinking habits, terror to his family
| and a nuisance to the neighborhood
and begs the Governor not to par.
don him. He states on information
from reliable parties that the convict is
made TO peform no work in the camp, wears
no stripes, is permitted TO visit about the vi
entity of the camp alone, and is provided
with gun to go hunting. The convict is
on the Atlanta and Hawkinsville railroad
and the penitentiary authorities will investi
gate
Forsyth county's tax digest was received
to-day The taxable property is returned
at 81, 4l6, 134, "a decrease from last year Of
SS,l76
A large number of members of the Legis
lature have arrived already, and the hotel.
are filling up with them tonight